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Network Security Engineer

Serena Ramovecchi

From Teaching UNIX To Working With Networks, Via Networking Academy

Serena Ramovecchi is now a Network Security Engineer at BT-Italy Global Services in Rome, but still finds time to teach at the networking academy that made her current career possible.

A Professor Who Wanted To Learn More

When Serena first became interested in Cisco training in the Networking Academy program, she was certainly no ICT novice, and she had even been a professor at Rome's Tor Vergata university. "I was teaching a UNIX course," she explains, "when I met a Networking Academy manager that described the academy, Cisco certifications and the possibility to take a course to become Cisco instructor." But why the interest in training as a Networking Academy instructor when she already taught IT? "I was becoming increasingly interested in networks. Networking is something so interesting to me, because of the variety of technologies, protocols and vendors involved, so you never stop learning. It's a world that's changing every day, and Cisco is the world leader," she explains.

Switching To Networks

Serena enrolled at the ELIS Cisco Networking Academy Training Centre in her native city of Rome in 2003, got down to work and didn't look back. Amongst some of the several courses she successfully completed were the Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing & Switching (CCNA), Securing Cisco Network Devices (SND) and Cisco Express Foundation Sales Specialist. With a background in both teaching and IT, Serena was acutely awareness of the value of the courses she was taking. "The program is useful because it provides all the instruments that you need to learn and practise what you study in theory, and is a good start before field experience." That field experience was to come two years later when Serena took full advantage of her Cisco certifications to become a Network Security Engineer at the large service provider, BT-Italy Global Services in October 2005.

Woman-To-Woman Advice

Despite her busy career, Serena still finds time to both teach and study at the ELIS NetAcad, and is hoping to take her CCIE Security and CCIE R&S exams in 2009. Her advice to women seeking to join the world of ICT is "don't underestimate yourself". She adds: "Although I was always one of the few women at university, on my courses and in my job, I have never been discriminated against."

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